Dynamic Facility & Product Recipe Administration

BizEmpire provides administrators with an interactive, zero-downtime configuration console (/admin) for creating unit archetypes, defining manufacturing recipes, and establishing retail store commerce rules.

1. Product Recipes & Retail Eligibility

• Free Trade Economic Principle: In BizEmpire, selling prices are 100% player-driven. Players set their own ask prices when listing goods on the Commodity Exchange floor and configure custom retail shelf prices for each commodity in their Retail Stores.
• Guide Benchmark & Elasticity: The catalog price configured by administrators acts as an initial historical benchmark and baseline for the municipal consumer elasticity index (0.10 to 1.00).
• Retail Store Eligibility:
- ✅ Sold at Retail: YES: Consumer commodities (e.g. Shirts, Tailored Garments, Bread, Sugar, Woven Cloth) that municipal citizens purchase directly from Retail Stores. - ❌ Sold at Retail: NO (B2B Only): Wholesale raw materials, heavy machinery, or intermediate inputs (e.g. Raw Cotton, Iron Ore, Crude Oil, Blast Furnaces) that are restricted to inter-enterprise trade and processing.
• Manufacturing Recipe Builder: Specify input ingredients and quantities (e.g. 2\times\text{Raw Cotton} + 1\times\text{Woolen Cloth} \to \text{Cotton Shirt}).
• Producing Facility Types: Multi-select the factories, mills, mines, or farms capable of manufacturing the product.

2. Facility & Unit Types Builder

Administrators can commission new factory, mill, mine, and farm types without modifying source code:


• Identifier & Label: e.g. cotton_mill → "Cotton Spinning Mill".


• Industry Classification: office, mine, farm, factory, retail, warehouse, laboratory.


• Required Machinery:

- computers: Computers & Workstations (for Offices & Research)
- drills: Heavy Drilling Machinery & Rotary Rigs (for Mines & Wells)
- looms: Industrial Weaving & Sewing Looms (for Factories)
- furnaces: Blast Furnaces & Distillation Columns (for Smelters & Refineries)
- saws: Hydraulic Saw Rigs (for Lumber Mills)
- farm-tools: Harvesters & Tractors (for Arable Farms)
- shelving: Commercial Shelving & POS Registers (for Retail Stores)

• Minimum Qualification: Baseline employee skill score required (Q1.0 to Q5.0).


• Inputs & Outputs: Specify raw material requirements and manufactured yields.

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3. Real-Time Engine Synchronization

All configurations persist automatically to server/config/economic_registry.json and are immediately:


• Reflected in player commission modals (GET /api/divisions/unit-types).


• Enforced during tick cycles (server/game/production.js).


• Filtered in municipal citizen demand (server/game/npc_market.js).